Garden Blog - Top Tropicals

😱 Never trouble the trouble

"Better never trouble trouble until trouble troubles you;
For you only make your trouble double trouble when you do."
- Robert D. Keppel

🐈📸 Wesley is staying out of trouble at TopTropicals

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How to grow tropical fruit outside the Tropics

👨‍� Can you grow tropical fruit in colder climates? Absolutely! The key is growing them in containers so you can move them indoors during cold weather. With the right plant selection, a bit of motivation, good plant food, and a little love, you can enjoy a delicious harvest of exotic fruit - enough to treat your family and even share with friends. Here's everything you need to start your own Tropical Fruit Garden in containers.

🏆 Top tropical fruits and expert tips for growing in containers

• 📌 Top 10 Dwarf "Condo" Mango, great for container culture
• 📌 What are the Condo Mangos - a practical guide
• 📌 How to grow cold-hardy avocados
• 📌 Avocado everyone should have: dwarf Condo Avocado
• 📌 What is the best Avocado variety?
• 📌 The best tropical fruit tree for container: Annona.
• 📌 How to grow your own Carambola
• 📌 Tropical Cherries: Eugenias
• 📌 Peanut Butter Tree and Blackberry Jam Tree produce right away
• 📌 How to grow a Guava Tree: practical guide
• 📌 Coffee as the best Gift plant
• 📌 Top 10 fast-fruiting trees
• 📌 Three must-have fruit for every tropical garden
• 📌 What Fertilizer to Use Now and How?
• 📌 How to make plants green quickly: Green Magic - the fertilizer that truly works

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Condo Mango
Cold hardy Avocado
🍒 Tropical Cherries - Eugenias
⭐️ Carambola (Start Fruit)
🍉 Guava
🍈 Annona
🍍 Pineapple
🌶 Herbs and spices - tropical edibles right away
🕙 Fast-fruiting trees
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Supplies and Boosters

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🎡 The perfect ever-bloom beneath your shade tree

• ➕ Tabernaemontana divaricata, also known as Pinwheel Jasmine or Crape Jasmine, is in bloom virtually year around at Top Tropicals garden.
• ➕ It is a charming, low-maintenance shrub that thrives under taller trees, like palms or oaks. With glossy green leaves and delicate white, pinwheel-shaped flowers, it adds brightness and elegance to shaded spaces.
• ➕ Blooming year-round, Pinwheel Jasmine brings steady beauty to your garden and can even be trained into a small ornamental tree.
• ➕ While it loves bright light for the best floral show, it's surprisingly shade-tolerant - making it a go-to choice for under-tree planting.

🛒 Let your shady spots bloom beautifully!

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What is the best showy shrub to plant under a shade tree?

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😘 Holding the world together

"Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together." - Woodrow Wilson

🐈📸 Pearl and her cat buddy Ricki at TopTropicals

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🌟 Starry fruit and rusty leaves: the tropical tree full of surprises

❓ Is it Star Apple, Star Fruit, Cainito or Caimito? Are you lost? Don't be - and here is the truth:

• ⭐️ Don't confuse Chrysophyllum cainito (Caimito) with Pouteria caimito (Abiu), or Averrhoa carambola (Star Fruit) - which are all different fruit entirely!
• ⭐️ The Star Apple tree - Chrysophyllum cainito, also known as Caimito, is a tropical treasure admired for both its fruit and foliage. It is related to Sapote and Sapodilla and produces round, glossy fruit that comes in stunning purple and green varieties.
• ⭐️ When sliced open, the juicy flesh reveals a star-shaped pattern - hence the name "Star Apple"!
• ⭐️ The flavor is mildly sweet, often described as a mix of grape, lychee, and apple with a hint of caramel.
• ⭐️ The tree also features lush green leaves with a striking rusty-red underside, making it as beautiful as it is bountiful.
• ⭐️ Caimito thrives in warm climates and is popular in the Caribbean, Central America, and Southeast Asia.

🛒 Plant your own exotic Star Apple tree

📚 Learn more:

• ▫️ Where can I try a rare Abiu fruit and what does it taste like?
• ▫️ Why is it called Star Apple?
• ▫️Star fruit: the Star of the orchard

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🌸 Napoleons Plume - Orchid Tree that blooms in a pot

• Bauhinia monandra - Napoleons Plume Orchid Tree - is a breathtaking tropical tree with flowers that truly resemble delicate orchids, and leaves folding like butterfly wings. It is one of he most impressive varieties of orchid trees.
• Each blossom starts off pale yellow and transforms to soft pink by the next day, with the center petal beautifully streaked in magenta - a unique color shift that makes the tree look like it's blooming in multiple shades at once. When in bloom, it's covered in these showy flowers, creating a dazzling display.
• Despite its exotic look, this tree is surprisingly well-suited for containers. It can be easily kept trimmed and compact, with seedlings often blooming when just 2 feet tall. While it's sensitive to cold, growing it in a container makes it easy to move indoors during chilly weather. This makes Bauhinia monandra the perfect choice for gardeners who want a tropical tree that delivers nonstop visual impact in a manageable size.
• How to enjoy the orchid flowers and butterfly foliage of Bauhinia right on your patio or balcony? Choose the right variety. More bauhinia species suitable for containers: B. galpinii, B. madagascariensis, B. monandra, B. alba (candida), B. acuminata, B. bidentata, B. blakeana, B. grandidieri and many others.

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📚 Learn more about Orchid trees:

• ▫️How to grow Orchid Trees in pots
• ▫️Bauhinias: trees with Orchid Flowers and Butterfly Wings
• ▫️Why Bauhinias are called Orchid Trees: orchid flowers with butterfly wings...
• ▫️Bauhinia blakeana - Hong Kong Orchid Tree
• ▫️Bauhinia galpinii (punctata) - Pride of De Kaap or Nasturtium Bauhinia

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🌳 Looking forward to harvest

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant." - Robert Louis Stevenson.

🐈📸 Bob is harvesting Bay Leaves at TopTropicals

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♨️ Turn up the color in your garden with the bold everblooming Brazilian plume

• ❣️Looking to add nonstop color, tropical flair for shade or sun, and pollinator appeal to your garden?

Megaskepasma erythrochlamys - Brazilian plume or Red Cloak, is the ultimate show-stopper shrub that takes both sun or shade.
• ❣️ With its big, bold leaves and eye-catching crimson-to-mauve flower spikes, this plant brings exotic beauty - without the need for a steamy jungle.
• ❣️The best part? It's surprisingly cold hardy. This lush-looking tropical can handle brief dips into the 30s (F), making it a top pick for USDA zones 9-11. Plant it in full sun or partial shade, and with regular watering, it rewards you with a steady burst of blooms that butterflies and hummingbirds can't resist.
• ❣️Reaching 5-7 ft tall in the ground, it fills out beautifully to anchor beds or soften fences. In colder regions, it can still thrive in large pots - just give it a sheltered spot, bring it indoors when temperatures drop, and enjoy its vivid flower show all winter long.
• ❣️If you want a garden that doesn’t fade with the season, the Brazilian plume delivers color, volume, and wildlife appeal - all year round.

🛒 Make your garden pop with color of Brazilian plume

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⭐️ Shooting Star Gardenia: a rare scent from Africa

• ⭐️ Gardenia nitida (Posoqueria), Shooting Star Gardenia - is a rare African treasure prized for its star-like tubular flowers and rich, intoxicating fragrance.
• ⭐️ Blooming sporadically throughout the year, this plant puts on a dazzling show when in bloom - often covered in clusters of white blossoms that light up the garden like stars.
• ⭐️ Its leaves are unusually shaped and add to its exotic charm. It is a must-have for fragrance lovers and rare plant collectors.

🛒 Bring the stars with scent to your garden

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😏 A kitten like a rosebud

"A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden." - Robert Southey

🐈📸 Sushi the cat, a couple weeks after she was born at TopTropicals Bfarm

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